{"id":691,"date":"2020-04-16T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=691"},"modified":"2020-04-21T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:48:32","slug":"recreation-science-in-our-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2020\/04\/16\/recreation-science-in-our-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreation Science in our National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forestry.oregonstate.edu\/stay-home-lecture-series\" target=\"_blank\">Stay at Home lecture series<\/a> started with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/directory.forestry.oregonstate.edu\/people\/dantonio-ashley\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Ashley D\u2019Antonio<\/a>\u2019s lecture on \u201cRecreation Science in our National Parks.\u201d Over half of the United States population participates in outdoor recreation activities like mountain biking, snowshoeing and hiking!\u00a0 In 2014, the National Park Service hosted 294 million visitors, and visitations continue to increase. As she mentions in her talk, balancing recreation and ecosystem protection is becoming critically important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.oregonstate.edu\/media\/t\/0_kjjlywba\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2020\/04\/Stay_at_Home_Lectures_AshleyDAntonio-1024x570.png\" alt=\"Watch the video of Ashley D' Antonio's presentation.\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2020\/04\/Stay_at_Home_Lectures_AshleyDAntonio-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2020\/04\/Stay_at_Home_Lectures_AshleyDAntonio-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2020\/04\/Stay_at_Home_Lectures_AshleyDAntonio-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2020\/04\/Stay_at_Home_Lectures_AshleyDAntonio-1536x854.png 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2020\/04\/Stay_at_Home_Lectures_AshleyDAntonio-2048x1139.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Ashley\u2019s lecture to learn how she has helped inform management of our national parks and other protected areas! If you are interested in working in critical fields that balance the needs of ecosystems and society, Oregon State University offers undergraduate degrees in <a href=\"https:\/\/forestry.oregonstate.edu\/undergraduate-programs\/tral\">tourism, recreation, and adventure leadership<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forestry.oregonstate.edu\/undergraduate-programs\/natural-resources\">natural resources<\/a>, and provides a broad range of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/exmail.oregonstate.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=M7iwKpVYD1k_hj2Bv5eVgHu74Nu5Fj1D2U8uG9iBe1tE342bOOLXCA..&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.forestry.oregonstate.edu%2fgraduate-programs\" target=\"_blank\">graduate opportunities<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <em>Dr. Ashley D\u2019Antonio is the Gene D. Knudson Forestry Chair and an assistant professor of nature-based recreation.&nbsp; She studies outdoor recreation science and how recreation science can be used to help inform management of our National Parks and other protected areas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stay at Home lecture series started with Dr. Ashley D\u2019Antonio\u2019s lecture on \u201cRecreation Science in our National Parks.\u201d Over half of the United States population participates in outdoor recreation activities like mountain biking, snowshoeing and hiking!\u00a0 In 2014, the National Park Service hosted 294 million visitors, and visitations continue to increase. As she mentions&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2020\/04\/16\/recreation-science-in-our-national-parks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[603042,1292536,1292535],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-research","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}